Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann charged with seventh homicide | EUROtoday
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Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann has been charged with the homicide of a seventh lady.
The New York architect, 61, who’s already going through homicide costs in a string of deaths often called the Gilgo Beach killings, was arraigned on a superseding indictment on a brand new cost of second-degree homicide within the loss of life of Valerie Mack.
Mack, 24, of New Jersey, had been working as an escort in Philadelphia and was final seen by her household in October 2000. Her torso was present in Manorville in November 2000, and for twenty years she was often called Jane Doe No. 6. Her stays had been recognized by DNA 4 years in the past.
According to courtroom paperwork unveiled Tuesday, hair discovered on Mack’s stays had been linked to Heuermann’s spouse and daughter by DNA testing. Hair discovered on six of the seven victims has now been linked to Heuermann or his members of the family.
New details about Mack’s homicide was revealed in a bail letter that was unsealed on Tuesday. The New Jersey lady’s breasts had been mutilated and her stays had been tied with rope, prosecutors mentioned.
Heuermann, who apppeared earlier than Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei in Riverhead Tuesday, was first arrested in July 2023 and charged with the murders of the Gilgo Four: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Earlier this yr, he was additionally charged with the murders of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla.
The investigation into the Gilgo Beach killings dates again to 2010, when police looking for a lacking lady discovered 10 units of human stays within the scrub alongside a barrier island parkway, prompting fears of a serial killer.
Over the years, investigators used DNA evaluation and different clues to establish the victims, a lot of whom had been intercourse employees. In some circumstances, they related them to stays discovered elsewhere on Long Island years earlier. Police additionally started reexamining different unsolved killings of girls discovered lifeless on Long Island.
Heuermann, who lived along with his spouse and two youngsters in Massapequa Park on Long Island and commuted to a Manhattan structure workplace, was arrested on July 13, 2023.
He has pleaded not responsible to all costs.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-rex-heuermann-seventh-murder-b2665819.html